Early Years
Yuri Tiutiunnyk was born on April 20, 1891, to a peasant family, former serfs Yosyp and Maryna, in the village of Budyshche, near Kiev. Remarkable is the fact that he was the grandson of Taras Shevchenko's sister Yaryna on the mother's side. His older cousins Levko and Ananiy Shevchenkos were one of the organizers of the Free Cossacks, later joining the UPSR. Only 5 out of 9 children in his family reached adulthood. Tiutiunnyk finished primary education at the village school and later an agrarian school in Uman. He was married, and had two daughters.
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